accomplishment

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as in achievement
the state of being actual or complete a long, difficult project whose accomplishment we wondered if we would ever see

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Recent Examples of accomplishment Every year that passes, the list of Bad Bunny’s accomplishments gets longer. Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2025 Clark's individual accomplishments during her rise to stardom over the last couple of years dominated media coverage. Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 6 Apr. 2025 Among Arison’s top accomplishments as Heat owner was helping to bring Pat Riley to the organization prior to the 1995-96 season. Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2025 As for her own legacy, Johnson will not soon be forgotten - and not just for her accomplishments on the track. Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for accomplishment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accomplishment
Noun
  • Those successes led to Hilton being named to this year’s CNBC Changemakers list, which spotlights women whose accomplishments have left an indelible mark on the business world.
    Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
  • His next challenge will be sustaining that level of success over the course of a 10-plus year career to follow the footsteps of the duo that came ushered him into the league.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Maricopa County Attorney's Office argued Vallow Daybell orchestrated Vallow’s death to collect insurance and begin a new life, telling the jury that the killing was an execution.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The problem was that Cleveland disrupted Miami’s execution, so the Heat couldn’t get the first action off cleanly.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Support perseverance and passion for long-term goals: Support sustained effort and a growth mindset rather than grades or achievement for achievement's sake.
    Sherri Gordon, Parents, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Praises for Kai's newest sartorial achievement were sung loudly by her mom and dad, who showed their love on Instagram.
    Michelle Lee, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The pandemic only exacerbated these disparities, and today, young Chicagoans are navigating a climate in which their education, safety and well-being are under threat.
    Beth Swanson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • For a nation where the majority of the population was born after 1979, there remains a glaring gap in education and public reckoning over the Khmer Rouge’s atrocities.
    Sophal Ear, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • At Amazon fulfillment centers, which employ the majority of the company’s 1.5 million workers, vending machines are stocked not just with snacks but with painkillers.
    Jennifer M. Harris, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • With the convenience of direct-from-warehouse fulfillment, customers skip the hassle of third-party delays, backorders, or vague tracking updates.
    Rhiannon Frater, USA Today, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The realization that one extinct ant species in the genus used to live in the Caribbean has brought a fresh heap of questions for researchers to answer.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The same realization has bubbled up around marine reptiles.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The creatures have set up a curious civilization with a religion based around the adventures of Peter Rabbit.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The stakes are no longer just scientific recognition—but potentially the fate of human civilization.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The subject of the celebrity memoir, which grounds the novel, is the heiress of a media empire who's left to deal with a world defined by the tabloid culture her own family bred.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The real work to change CPD’s historic culture of brutality and discrimination has hardly begun.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2025

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